Europe on alert as first major heatwave of 2025 pushes temperatures to 42C
Authorities in Spain, Portugal, Greece and France issue extreme heat, wildfire and health warnings Authorities across Europe are on alert as the first heatwave of...
Category : Climate crisis
The ‘sacrifice zone’: villagers resist the EU’s green push for lithium mining
Residents of a Portuguese rural idyll where four vast mines are planned are among those who feel they will pay too high a cost for...
The Swiss village buried by a glacier collapse – podcast
Tess McClure reports on a landslide in Switzerland that left one person missing and destroyed a village The Swiss village of Blatten was wiped out...
Only two European states have net zero military emissions target, data shows
Austria and Slovenia are exceptions in continent where just a third of militaries even know their carbon footprint Revealed: Nato rearmament could increase emissions by...
Glacier collapses burying evacuated Swiss village in mud and rocks – video
A huge section of a glacier in the Swiss Alps has broken off, causing a deluge of ice, mud and rock to bury most of...
Swiss glacier collapse destroys parts of village
Numerous homes in Blatten devastated after huge cloud of ice and rubble inundates evacuated town A massive glacier has collapsed in southern Switzerland, partly destroying...
EU’s ‘chocolate crisis’ worsened by climate breakdown, researchers warn
Cocoa one of six commodities vulnerable to environmental threats in ‘extremely worrying picture’ for food resilience Climate breakdown and wildlife loss are deepening the EU’s...
Top winemaker ‘may have to leave its Spanish vineyards due to climate crisis’
Familia Torres has been making wine in Catalonia since 1870, but says it may have to move to higher altitudes in 30 years’ time A...
Revealed: Big tech’s new datacentres will take water from the world’s driest areas
Amazon, Google and Microsoft are building datacentres in water-scarce parts of five continents Amazon, Microsoft and Google are operating datacentres that use vast amounts of...
Swedish shoppers boycott supermarkets over ‘runaway’ food prices
With the cost of feeding a family up by an estimated £2,290, consumers, like many across Europe, are taking direct action Marcel Demir was not...
